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Title: Museums: A View from Outside


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Museums A View from Outside
  • Chris Yapp
  • Head of Public Sector Innovation
  • Microsoft

2
Revisiting my themes
  • Museums and organisational drift
  • Complexity of purposes
  • Governance
  • From collections to connections
  • Thoughts on the Virtual Museum

3
Organisational drift
  • Libraries
  • Museums
  • Galleries
  • Archives
  • Theatres

4
Complexity of Purposes
  • Education
  • Scholarship
  • Preservation
  • Tourism
  • Regeneration
  • Campaigning
  • Identity and citizenship
  • ..

A very diverse sector
5
Governance
  • National, Regional, Local
  • Public, Private, Voluntary
  • Stand alone, institutionally attached
  • Sources of funding
  • Core competences?

6
Core Competence
  • Some leading edge challenges
  • People and skills in sector
  • Information and knowledge management

7
From Collections to Connections
  • Collection Management
  • Connecting objects to objects
  • Connecting objects to stories..
  • Connecting objects to locations
  • Connecting objects to people
  • Connecting people to people
  • Connecting institutions to institutions

8
Thoughts on the Virtual Museum
  • Full collections
  • Personalised
  • Accessible
  • Substitution vs Complementary
  • Thematic
  • Without walls
  • Digital only museums..

9
Difficult issues
  • Prioritisation of digitisation
  • IPR, licensing
  • Long-term preservation
  • Renaissance or dark ages
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